Ziyi Liu
2023.8 – Now
LLM Reasoning · Social Intelligence
People
PhD Students
4 
Linxin Song
2024.8 – Now
Computer-Use Agents · Multimodal Language Models · Synthetic Data
Priyanka Dey
2023.8 – Now
LLMs · Personalization
Co-advised with Emilio Ferrara
Jiaqi Deng
2026.8 – Now
Computer-Use Agents · Agentic Foundation Models · Agent Evaluation
Co-advised with Xiang Ren
Master Students
3
Chandresh Mallick
2025.6 – Now
Model Merging
Tsung-Jui Wu
2025.6 – Now
Research in Progress
Ziyan Yang
2026.5 – Now
LLM Agents · Evaluation · AI Systems
Undergraduate Students
1 MS
Michael Siu
Visiting Students & Interns
6 XG
Xiaoyi Gu
BY
Boqin Yuan
XD
Xuwei Ding
HZ
Haotian Zhai
YP
Yuyang Peng
SW
Shijian Wang
Alumni
PhD & Visiting
- Jen-Tse Huang (Visiting student) → Postdoc @ JHU
- Jiazhi Li → Amazon
- Taiwei Shi (USC PhD) → Microsoft
Master, Undergrad & Summer Program
- Rahul Anil Nair (USC master)
- Abhishek Anand (USC master) → TikTok
- Shudi Hou (USC master)
- Yongkang Du (USC master) → PhD @ PSU
- Ruyuan Zuo (USC master) → Google → PhD @ GT
- Haoxuan Li (USC master)
- Zhaotian Weng (USC master) → PhD @ UCSB
- Haonan Pan (USC master)
- Shuheng Chen (USC master)
- Namratha Patil (USC master)
- Yubo Zhang (USC master)
- Zhenyu Zhao (USC CURVE Fellowship)
- Wendy Wu (USC CURVE Fellowship) → Master @ CMU
- Sunny Yu (USC CURVE Fellowship)
- Fanzhi Zeng (USC–Tsinghua Summer Program) → PhD @ UT Austin
- Ziyuan Zhao (USC–Tsinghua Summer Program) → PhD @ MBZUAI
Affiliated Members
unofficial but essential
Luke · 胖胖
Being cute. Always chill.
Annabel · 妹妹
Energetic. Never stop running.
Lime Minion
Keep Smiling.